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Kempf family of Chelsea and Detroit, Michigan

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Charles Henry Kempf (1831-1916) — also known as Charles H. Kempf — of Chelsea, Washtenaw County, Mich. Born in Trumbauersville, Bucks County, Pa., January 1, 1831. Republican. Tinsmith; hardware business; banker; Presidential Elector for Michigan, 1876. Congregationalist. German ancestry. Member, Freemasons. Died in Detroit, Wayne County, Mich., October 22, 1916 (age 85 years, 295 days). Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Chelsea, Mich.

		Relatives: Son of Rosina (Maier) Kempf (1796-1857) and Johann Jacob Kempf (1800-1865); brother of Reuben Kempf; married 1855 to Mary Elizabeth Freer (1837-1910); father of George Henry Kempf (1860-1922).
		Political family: Kempf family of Chelsea and Detroit, Michigan.
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		Image source: Past and Present of Washtenaw County (1906)

Reuben Kempf (1835-1912) — of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich. Born in Trumbauersville, Bucks County, Pa., March 5, 1835. Republican. Banker; member of Michigan state senate, 1880; candidate for mayor of Ann Arbor, Mich., 1903. German ancestry. Died in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, Mich., July 3, 1912 (age 77 years, 120 days). Interment at Forest Hill Cemetery, Ann Arbor, Mich.

		Relatives: Son of Rosina (Maier) Kempf (1796-1857) and Johann Jacob Kempf (1800-1865); brother of Charles Henry Kempf (1831-1916); married, August 11, 1862, to Susana Dancer (1840-1919); uncle of George Henry Kempf.
		Political family: Kempf family of Chelsea and Detroit, Michigan.
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George Henry Kempf (1860-1922) — also known as George H. Kempf — of Chelsea, Washtenaw County, Mich.; Detroit, Wayne County, Mich. Born in Michigan, June, 1860. Republican. Traveling salesman; alternate delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1896. German ancestry. Died in 1922 (age about 62 years). Interment at Oak Grove Cemetery, Chelsea, Mich.

		Relatives: Son of Charles Henry Kempf (1831-1916) and Mary Elizabeth (Freer) Kempf (1837-1910); married to Mary Carolinda Angevine (1858-1923); nephew of Reuben Kempf.
		Political family: Kempf family of Chelsea and Detroit, Michigan.
		See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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